Research and Publications
My research started as a graduate researcher at the Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project at the University of Houston in 2007. Since then, I have shared the culture of U.S. Hispanic workers in their fight against fascism, U.S. Hispanic periodicals, and migration and exile literature. This work involves recovering and interpreting forgotten knowledge in periodical and personal archives. For example, Correspondencia personal y política de un anarcosindicalista exiliado: Jesús González Malo (1950-1965) (2016) compiles Malo's letters to show how grassroots leaders strengthened their networks in the context of transnational antifascism and anarchism. Likewise, I co-edited Writing Revolution: Hispanic Anarchism in the United States (2019) to examine how Spanish-language anarchist print culture established and maintained transnational networks from the late nineteenth through twentieth centuries to fight oppressive states. These networks were later crucial for organized resistance against fascism, as detailed in Fighting Fascist Spain: Worker Protest from the Printing Press (2020). My most recent transcription, translation, and edition of Aurelio Pego’s humorous chronicles,The Antifascist Chronicles of Aurelio Pego: A Critical Anthology (2021), demonstrates how U.S. Hispanics identified the characteristics of Spanish fascism and exposed them in an era when Francisco Franco became an ally to the U.S. in the global fight against Communism. I regularly publish in peer-reviewed publications and am the curator of Fighting Fascist Spain -- The Exhibits, among other projects. In these outlets, I share my findings about U.S. Hispanic antifascists, who were committed to generating their own non-institutionalized and transnational modes of organizing from the ground up. They had a clear transnational consciousness: old migrants and new exiles from European fascism coalesced in overlapping communities across the U. S. In the periodicals that emerged from these communities, antifascists expressed grassroots, prefigurative politics and international solidarity; they organized nonviolent direct action in the form of cultural fundraising, political rallies, pickets, and demonstrations across the U. S. to fight fascism. Funds were sent to victims of fascism and the clandestine resistance.